Of Interest: The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved a proposal from the MESSENGER team to name 15 craters on Mercury. Read the full news story for additional details about the naming process and the new names. All of the 15 newly named craters were imaged during the missionís first Mercury flyby in January 2008, and the crater locations are shown here on two NAC mosaics. The new crater names are (with links to previously released close-up views of the craters when available):